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Re: Where is the center of the universe?

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On 11/23/2015 3:07 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 11/23/15 2:04 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:

>> "Elvis is everywhere"
>
>
>    I don't know about Elvis, but the center of the universe is
>    everywhere.

Suppose for some unknown reason the Universe stopped expanding. Would it 
have a describable "center" at that point in time?

Or, if it started contracting toward a new singularity what would be 
"outside" of it when it got to be the size of a basketball?

>    No Center
>      http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/nocenter.html
>      http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html
>
>    Also see Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
>      http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
>      http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
>      http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
>
>    WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
>      http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
>
>    WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
>      http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html

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dvus

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Re: Where is the center of the universe? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 14:54 -0500
  Re: Where is the center of the universe? "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 12:04 -0800
    Re: Where is the center of the universe? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 14:07 -0600
      Re: Where is the center of the universe? dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-24 17:18 -0500
        Re: Where is the center of the universe? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 16:35 -0600

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